What are interactions?

Jen
April 03, 2017 16:01

An interaction is any time Magento attempts to speak with your Brightpearl account. This includes:

Import Brightpearl settings

This interaction is used when first configuring or updating the configuration of the extension. Magento needs to know which data resources should be used when communicating with Brightpearl, for example, which warehouses to use when updating inventory levels. In order to find and select these data resources in the extension configuration they will first need to be collected from your Brightpearl account using the Brightpearl settings import. Once imported all the Brightpearl settings will be visible in the extension configuration screens.

This is where you specify which Brightpearl channel the Magento store is associated with. It can be set at a store level so you can download the orders from different Magento stores into different channels within Brightpearl to help with reporting.

Shared : Stock settings

These settings tell Magento which Brightpearl warehouses to use when it retrieves inventory levels, what to do if products go out of stock and what to do when they come back into stock

Import Stock levels

These interactions are used to keep inventory levels up-to-date in Magento by importing the on-hand inventory levels from one, or multiple, warehouses in Brightpearl. The bulk and real-time inventory imports are designed to efficiently and effectively prevent overselling through your Magento stores.

The settings here are used during the Import Prices interaction. You can choose to only sync prices for specific product types and you can map different price lists to different customer groups within Magento.

Import prices

This interaction is used to send pricing updates to Magento from Brightpearl. This includes pricing by by store, by customer group and using pricing tiers.